Rural Origins, City Lives : Class and Place in Contemporary China /

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"Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumpt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zavoretti, Roberta (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Exode urbain > Aspect social > Chine.
Classes sociales > Chine.
Migrant labor.
Rural-urban migration > Social aspects.
Social classes.
Social conditions.
Travailleurs migrants > Chine.
Exode rural > Aspect social > Chine.
Migrant labor > China.
Rural-urban migration > Social aspects > China.
Social classes > China.
Chine > Conditions sociales.
Nanjing
China.
Chine > Conditions sociales > 2000-
China > Social conditions > 2000-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The paradigm of rural to urban migrationg in contemporary China
  • What is a "peasant worker"?
  • Speaking of oneself
  • A place of encounters
  • Earning, spending, consuming
  • Negotiating success
  • Making place, making class

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